by Amy Adams on July 14, 2011 at 10:18AM | 1 comment
CIRM grantees at University of California Irvine have used human neural stem cells to help alleviate brain damage that occurs after radiation to treat brain tumors.
by Amy Adams on November 25, 2009 at 8:51AM | 0 comments
Radiation can effectively destroy brain tumor cells â but at a cost. While killing the tumor cells the treatment also damages normal cells in portions of the brain involved in learning and memory, leaving people with varying levels of impairment. New work by researchers at the University of California, Irvine suggests that human embryonic stem cells are able to ameliorate radiation-induced normal tissue damage.
